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13 Sep 2016

Abstract

Crystal Viewer 3.0 is a new tool starting from scratch. It is designed based on the old version 2.3.4 and aims to include better visualization and new features. It visualizes 14 Bravais lattices, Miller planes, and crystal structures of specific materials needed for many courses in materials, electronics and chemistry. Users can also create and view materials not contained in our database by setting certain material properties like the basis atom position, the Bravais vector. The main purpose of this educational tool is to provide insight about the crystalline structure of various materials.

For problems with this tool, please submit a support ticket (click on "Need Help?" button in upper right part of this page). To submit a wish for improvements, please click on the Wishlist tab above.

First Time User Guide: This document provides useful information to the users who are using the tool for the first time. It explains some important details about crystallography and usage of the tool.

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NEMO 5, a code under development in the research group of Gerhard Klimeck. NEMO 5 is an open source nanoelectronics device simulator containing a variety of different material and geometry models. Features include the construction of atomistic grids of varying crystal structures, multiband Schroedinger-Poisson simulations, atomistic strain and phonon computations, quantum transport using open-boundary wavefunctions or NEGF, and user-friendly input/output.

Credits

Crystal Viewer 3.0 was written and developed by Yuanchen Chu as a PhD student at Purdue University.

Various people are also involved in the development of Crystal Viewer 3.0: